1945: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1. 1945: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1963: Hot line links US and USSR / Limited Test Ban Treaty 1946: Churchill’s iron curtain speech 1964: China detonates atomic bomb 1947: Truman Doctrine 1966: Minuteman II goes on alert 1948: Communist coup in Czechoslovakia / Berlin blockade begins 1968: Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia 1949: NATO established / USSR explodes atomic bomb / Communist takeover in China 1969: US Landing on moon 1970: Minuteman III goes on alert 1950: Korean War begins 1952: US explodes H-bomb 1972: SALT I agreement 1953: USSR explodes H-bomb 1973: Yom Kippur War: US goes on worldwide alert 1954: Communist Party outlawed in US 1979: SALT II agreement 1955: Warsaw Pact / First US civil defense exercise 1983: Reagan proposes Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative 1956: Hungarian uprising / Krushchev tell the US: We will bury you 1989: Eastern European nations break with Moscow / Berlin Wall comes down 1957: Sputnik 1958: Eisenhower authorizes Minuteman Missile Program 1991: Bush and Gorbachev sign START treaty / Minuteman II system begins deactivating 1959: Cuban Revolution 1960: U-2 spy plane shot down by USSR 1993: 66th Missile Squadron, including Delta Flight inactivated 1961: Bay of Pigs / Berlin Wall Built / Eisenhower warns of military-industrial complex / First successful Minuteman test flight 1999: Congress signed enabling legislation for Minuteman Missile NHS 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis / Minuteman I goes on alert 2004: Minuteman Missile NHS begins tour operations